How to set an auto updating year in Word

There is one thing that irks me about MS Word, and that is how difficult it is to create an auto-updating year on documents. I often want the simplicity of a year. I rarely need a day, a date, or a month. But finding how to do this is tricky!

It is not one of the standard Insert | Date options.

However, with a bit of jiggery pokery, it can be done, as follows:

1. Open your Word document
2. Navigate to where you want to date to appear
3. Key Ctrl and F9. This inserts a set of field brackets (curly brackets).
4. Click between the brackets, and key: DATE \@ "yyyy"
5. Then key F9. This will update the field, and turn your date into the year.
   

Too, too easy: but only when you know how.

Sam

• Reference: WordBanter (9 February 2007). Inserting Date - Year Format Only. http://www.wordbanter.com/showthread.php?t=74611